That's quite uncharitable. What are you trying to achieve here? They (probably) don't want to stop progress (especially unqualified like this) in general. They

That's quite uncharitable. What are you trying to achieve here? They (probably) don't want to stop progress (especially unqualified like this) in general. They'd like a world where LLMs didn't come to exist. And whether LLMs are progress at all remains to be proven.